Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

While experimentation is still a good way to learn, the potential and pitfalls of AI demand that every organization get serious about strategies, policies, and approaches that can steer them through decisions on AI. The term encompasses a wide range of tools and practices that can support an equally wide range of work and strategies.

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Forum One

APRIL 21, 2021

As we take this week to reflect on the substantial work that so many organizations do day in and day out to protect our planet—from rallying volunteers to shaping public policy—we are thrilled to shine a light on our clients at NRDC who recently celebrated their 50th anniversary. To help the site win, be sure to cast your vote today!

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It helps if they’re easy to understand, shareable, and engaging across a broad audience. One of its best features is how it weaves the narrative of “Rising to the Challenges in Two Years of Crisis” throughout the report to combine storytelling with data-informed impact. The Brookings Institution annual report is comprehensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Note from Beth: Digital storytelling is key to fundraising success, but using a storytelling lens in your organization can have further benefit of busting organizational silos. Fortunately, storytelling busts silos. We met internally with the communications team, but then also with Policy and Partnerships.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2022

Storytelling as a solution. Communicating what a nonprofit does through storytelling is a valuable and engaging tool for stakeholders. Storytellers strategically place the donor or prospect into the story, allowing them to help solve a problem, making them a hero. The flow of a compelling story is audience ?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

NRDC combines the power of more than three million members and online activists with the expertise of more than 700 scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories from the last 50 years. We worked with them to rethink their digital ecosystem from the ground up and optimize how they attract, engage, and grow their target audiences, including donors and supporters. Alliance for Justice.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists.

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Classy

JUNE 7, 2021

For more tips on how to use different storytelling tools to draw in your audience, download The Guide to Nonprofit Storytelling. Identify the Right Target Audience. Their internal policy requires that every email or phone call from a recurring donor is returned within 24 hours to ensure all questions are answered. .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Research and advocacy: Conduct research on the state of local journalism, produce reports, and advocate for policies that support the industry. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years. Zero to Three advances policy solutions designed to support and strengthen families, raise awareness and promote action on behalf of babies and toddlers. NTI Nuclear Security Index.

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Qgiv

MARCH 29, 2023

billion Google searches per day, the opportunities to be seen by a new online audience are endless. Although the Google Ad Grant is an amazing tool for many nonprofits, there are a few limitations compared to a paid account that can be found in the Google Ad Grants Policy Compliance Guide. How do nonprofits get started?

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Forum One

JUNE 29, 2021

In some cases, it has replaced the more traditional print version altogether, while in others, it complements a hardcopy report that is either provided as a downloadable resource or sent as a printed hardcopy to target audiences, such as members, funders, supporters, and advocates. Girls Who Code.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 20, 2010

asked me to share some of my storytelling experience with the grantees in hopes that they would be inspired to better document and share the important work that they do and the impact they have in their communities. How organizations can build the storytelling culture into their DNA. John Snow, Inc. How to capture a story effectively.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. It advocates for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services. ??Forum Pacific Science Center.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. It advocates for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services. ??Forum Pacific Science Center.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years to mark its anniversary. We worked with them to rethink their digital ecosystem from the ground up and optimize how they are attracting, engaging and growing their target audiences, including donors and supporters. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours. For example: 1.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narratives have the power to liberate or oppress because they have the potential to influence the beliefs and behaviors of individuals, which in turn can shape institutional policies and practices. Who are the messengers and storytellers that can most effectively deliver these messages and move this narrative?

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

Julia: My framework that I use with my clients is 80/20: 80% of your posts should be informative, educational, inspirational, helpful, valuable, shedding light on your programs, storytelling, etc. You want to put more deposits in than you take out, and it’s really about how you show up for your audience week after week after week.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

There are pros and cons to each type of fundraiser, depending on the audience, your in-house capabilities and your resources. Discuss the audience and staff ability and capacity to run an event fundraiser. Auction items need to appeal to the audience that does attend and are in the room during those few precious hours.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

provides federal incentives and policy support to encourage workforce development. Ensure your marketing, website, and social media appeal to a broad audience and reflect an ever-changing student population. Use video storytelling! For example, the U.S. How is your institution a better choice for their future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Check out my pinterest board “ Nonprofit Infographics.” Before you hire a designer, work with your in-house design or do it yourself, it is a good idea to identify the goal, audience, data, and key message that you to communicate. So you also need data visualization, marketing, and storytelling skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

I kicked off the session by reciting my favorite poem, Joyce Kilmer’s Trees and shared the rules of audience interaction and format in Iambic pentameter. I hope someday Mark Zuckerberg will return the favor,” said Soltani, echoing the frustration of many nonprofit leaders about Facebook’s pay-to-play policy.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Enhanced user experience ensures that your website is open and inviting for all members of your audience. If you don’t know where to start when it comes to telling your story, think back to the basics of storytelling that most of us learn in elementary school. A conversion-optimized donation page.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

That network supports local leaders in improving education policy through advocacy. When the crisis kicked off, there were a lot of people who were for education or education policy for whom education policy stopped being very important. Did you release any pandemic-specific messaging to your audiences (e.g.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

“Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). The power of social media and the authentic storytelling that takes place is in the opportunity for people to inspire other people to take action, which leads to lesson #2. Lesson #1: Voice.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Apps like Vine or Instagram (which now has video) let you experiment with storytelling in a shorter format. For some of our favorite digital storytelling apps check out: Even More Ways to Tell Your Story with Your Smartphone. Having some sort of mobile payment strategy can help you reach a wider donor audience.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

A good social media policy provides clear guidelines on what staff should do when posting and interacting with constituents, volunteers, and donors. Here are three tools to measure audience engagement on social media. Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

While emotive storytelling is crux to engaging the hearts and minds of social media consumers, advocates are ethically bound to preserve the privacy of vulnerable clients. In time, it may become a platform for immigrant communities to help ACLU-NC drive momentous legal and policy victories.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. Council on Foundations Public Policy Summit. Council on Foundations Public Policy Summit. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Associations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

Obey the Simple Truths of Digital Storytelling. Speak to your audience, not the internal stakeholders of your organization. Focus on human stories, not policies. Prioritize accessibility testing ( WAVE ) on your storytelling channels. Work to understand what people want from you as an organization. Authenticity.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

I think you create balance by focusing the competition on the stages of: Open door policy for contributing/submitting. Strategy : Highlight the strategies that specifically address the problems (this assumes you’ve already used a process to identify your audience and goals and chosen the corresponding/appropriate tools to match).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

A good social media policy provides clear guidelines on what staff should do when posting and interacting with constituents, volunteers, and donors. Here are three tools to measure audience engagement on social media. Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. Written social media policy. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. Written social media plan.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2011

Data and storytelling are, to quote the great American sage, Forrest Gump, “like peas in a pod”. Most of this work is aimed at influencing public policy or educating the public – both places where attention spans are really short. By Larry Orman, Executive Director, GreenInfo Network. Extreme Makeover, the Cartography Edition!:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

social citizen social media enables you to stay relevant, share ideas, open doors and expose your ideas to a broader audience. amyrsward storytelling! We got a range of responses from nonprofits, foundations, and even some colleagues of board members. among many other awesome examples & possibilities).

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